Anyone know a good way to manage music with a g2x??
I have well over 2k songs on my itunes. I have them all on my g2x, but it seems to have a poor music managing system.
Songs/Artists/Playlists are duplicated many times, playlists duplicate the songs within them sometimes, etc.
I'm wondering if theres a good software to manage the music on my phone?
Something comparable to itunes preferrably
I just want to be able to make playlists on my computer without them duplicating on my phone.
I've tried doubletwist, itunesagent (which doesn't copy playlists), and even winamp.
i'm just using Google Play
I'm just using Google Play Music as well and transfer my files via mass storage. Now I use the cloud for Google Play Music and just keep a few albums on my SD card. I have no problems with duplicates or any other issues.
You have to get a tag editor and
Make sure there filled out right... iTunes fixes them but the music players don't.
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Kplaylist + MediaMonkey + Google Play
All my music is on an a private web server that can stream all my music. I stopped using iTunes a long time ago, but all my music is on this web server.
http://www.kplaylist.net/
If you can setup an Apache Service with PHP, you will love this app. Its the only thing I use and get my music anywhere.
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MediaMonkey
http://www.mediamonkey.com/
I only use this to update the ID Tags of all my songs and add the album picture from the web. Its a bit tricky, but what I do is, when I decide I want to add and album to Google Play I tag and add the picture album then upload them.
I have like 40 gigs of music, and slowly have converted to Google play. I fix the tags and albums as I go. Its worked so far
Sometimes the picture or the album name comes out wrong, have to re-upload or manually correct it once its inside Google. It happens sometimes, especially if mediamonkey can't find the rare song online.
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Google Play
If done right, all the songs will be properly tagged and the album picture inside. Its running better now then when it was called (Google Music). Used to crash alot. The only decision you have is "Make available Offline"
In the end, when its nicely organized, I use Google Play way way more.
yoo992 said:
I've tried doubletwist, itunesagent (which doesn't copy playlists), and even winamp.
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I've been using Doubletwist and it copies my playlist from itunes just fine
I use Banshee Media Player. I have it set up to sync one specific playlist. It works in one-click and it even converts my FLAC files on the fly to V9 mp3! Even better, even though I have it set to sync one playlist, it keeps track of which tracks belong to other playlists too. I use it on Ubuntu but I think the sync options work on Windows too.
Edit: It also keeps my media tagged, downloads album art and sorts the files into an [Artist]>[Album] folder structure.
Hey everyone
In order to test Google Music me and my friends put together a massive amount of music files. Some of them were already in Googles databse, so no direct upload was necessary, some of them were not so that i had to upload them.
So, now to the "funny fact". Google Music says now, there is no more space for me to upload music files. But the website and the android app shows me "only" 18077 files of 20.000 max.
So, can anyone tell me, why Gmusic stopps the upload even the limit hasn't reached yet? The trash is empty and the only thing I did was to upload 10 albums on an other gmusic account (normale ones, so 10-12 songs per cd).
hope you have an idea
best regards
Music
Hi guys,
The Google Play Music application supports audio files in numerous formats - including .mp3, .m4a (iTunes application AAC, DRM-free), FLAC, and OGG Vorbis - so you can copy music to your device that you’ve purchased from online stores, CDs you own, and other sources.
For some reason, some users reported that they were able to upload more than 20,000 songs. The numbers varies from one to another. So you're one of those unlucky ones I guess
So, today i deleted some albums of my gmusic account... just to look what will happens...
I deleted about 100 Songs, moved the "new" albums from my synced folder away and then back... 2 albums were uploaded, then again, the message or warning came back, i have too many songs in my account...
ok, so i deleted 200 more. 200!! and deleted them in the junk too... account shows 200 less... i moved again just one album into the sync folder, refreshed gmusic, restartet the upload app... but again, too many songs in my library... what the hell is that?
I use ALAC because I have a macbook and I use Itunes, yes please don't judge me :crying: , and Apple being Apple does not offer FLAC support on Itunes, so I stick to ALAC but if i drag and drop ALAC files to google Music it does not convert them, I use shuttle+ to play my music on my Nexus 6 but it doesn't support ALAC neither, the files are there but when I try to play them there's no sound, what would you recommend?
Most of my music is MP3's, but one of nmy favourite albums is in WMA. I just noticed that my phone can't play back WMA audio files.
I have tried both from my music app (Vinyl) and also the built in player in my file manager (MiX).
I can play them via VLC, but from my understanding, that uses its own decoder, and does not rely on the ROM's decoders.
Is it just me? 0r is it a known failing of A11 on the pixel 4a, that it cant decode WMA audio?
Try PowerAmp - it's a very powerful and customizable music player that supports WMA (Windows Media Audio) files.
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
blackhawk said:
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
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In my OP i already stated that VLC can play WMA files. I do not use VLC as my default music player.
DiamondJohn said:
I can play them via VLC, but from my understanding, that uses its own decoder, and does not rely on the ROM's decoders.
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JohnC said:
Try PowerAmp - it's a very powerful and customizable music player that supports WMA (Windows Media Audio) files.
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Thanks, but I am not looking for a replacement of my music player. I am asking if this is the case for everyone. PS. I am still on the march build of A11.
No one who actually posted, confirmed what I was asking?
Meh, I use Poweramp mostly have .wav files.
Pretty sure my stock N10+ can not play WMA files.
This seems to confirm there's no native support:
What Is a WMA File (and How Do I Open One)?
A file with the .wma file extension is a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file. Microsoft created the format to avoid the licensing issues associated with the MP3 format.
www.google.com
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No one who actually posted, confirmed what I was asking?
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Since you found one or more players that could not play WMA files, that should be a pretty clear indication that the device doesn't support WMA natively and that you will need a player that includes it's own WMA codec. So, you actually confirmed yourself that the A11 on the Pixel 4a does not have native support for WMA files.
And if someone replied that wma files play fine on their A11 Pixel 4a, it could simply mean that their player has it's own wma codec.
If you really want to know if A11 on a pixel 4a has a native wma codec, you can probably find a diagnostic app in the playstore that might list the codecs in a device.
blackhawk said:
VLC as well.
Windows Media Audio - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
Lol, I don't have even one WMA file on my Android... it's a MS free zone
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MS free, really...
blackhawk said:
Meh, I use Poweramp mostly have .wav files.
Pretty sure my stock N10+ can not play WMA files.
This seems to confirm there's no native support:
What Is a WMA File (and How Do I Open One)?
A file with the .wma file extension is a Windows Media Audio (WMA) file. Microsoft created the format to avoid the licensing issues associated with the MP3 format.
www.google.com
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ummm... I hope you don't have too many WAV files, as its a format created by Microsoft and IBM.
WAV - Wikipedia
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Since you found one or more players that could not play WMA files, that should be a pretty clear indication that the device doesn't support WMA natively and that you will need a player that includes it's own WMA codec. So, you actually confirmed yourself that the A11 on the Pixel 4a does not have native support for WMA files.
And if someone replied that wma files play fine on their A11 Pixel 4a, it could simply mean that their player has it's own wma codec.
If you really want to know if A11 on a pixel 4a has a native wma codec, you can probably find a diagnostic app in the playstore that might list the codecs in a device.
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It is pretty clear that it would not support WMA, but I was simply checking that it was not specific to my phone. I do have a lot of customisations.
My previous device was running Oreo, and it ... wait ...whaaat... I just checked my old old Oreo device, and it doesnt support WMA either. I never noticed that before.
It's probably because WMA is a Microsoft format and might require a license/royalty, just like why the Pixel doesn't support exFAT because that too is a Microsoft format.
DiamondJohn said:
MS free, really...
ummm... I hope you don't have too many WAV files, as its a format created by Microsoft and IBM.
WAV - Wikipedia
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The codec maybe not the content.
I have over 6000 .wav and HDCD files... it's too late
Just to put some context, I have over 3500 music audio files (+a thousand or so sound effects for alarms, notifications etc etc etc), of which, only 10 are WMA. This is why, even though I have had these files for probably over 10y, I haven't noticed. ie <0.33% I guess I have to dig that CD (mostly a single album) out of storage and re-rip.
Sorry for any wasted time due to MY confusion.
DiamondJohn said:
Just to put some context, I have over 3500 music audio files (+a thousand or so sound effects for alarms, notifications etc etc etc), of which, only 10 are WMA. This is why, even though I have had these files for probably over 10y, I haven't noticed. ie <0.33% I guess I have to dig that CD (mostly a single album) out of storage and re-rip.
Sorry for any wasted time due to MY confusion.
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Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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That would likely downgrad the audio quality...
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Why don't you just convert the WMAs to mp3s? https://cloudconvert.com/wma-to-mp3
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That would likely downgrade the audio quality...
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As I said, I only had about 10 out of over 3500 music files. Nearly all were from a single album, that I Ripped from CD back on Win2K before MP3's were natively (or its been so long since I installed the extension) supported by Windows, and I wasn't a Napster user, so wasn't heavily invested in MP3's, at the time. And my portable MP3 player (a Creative Labs product, not directly MS) actually could decode WMA's.
Anyway, I pulled the album out of storage (it was much easier to find than I expected), and re-ripped it, so all is good. Actually went down the road of Flac, it is one of my fav albums.
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As I said, I only had about 10 out of over 3500 music files. Nearly all were from a single album, that I Ripped from CD back on Win2K before MP3's were natively (or its been so long since I installed the extension) supported by Windows, and I wasn't a Napster user, so wasn't heavily invested in MP3's, at the time. And my portable MP3 player (a Creative Labs product, not directly MS) actually could decode WMA's.
Anyway, I pulled the album out of storage (it was much easier to find than I expected), and re-ripped it, so all is good. Actually went down the road of Flac, it is one of my fav albums.
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If it's a HDCD you must rip it as a wav file or you will lose the HDCD subtext ie degrade it.
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If it's a HDCD you must rip it as a wav file or you will lose the HDCD subtext ie degrade it.
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This happens to be a CD back from the year 2000. (No HDCD logo on cover) All I care about is the actual audio, and the Album, artist, song title metadata. My ears are over 50 years old, and although I do like my sub-woofer and hi's boosted, I am mostly listening in my car, with traffic and car noise, I dont think the HDCD encoding would be of much benefit. I only ripped to flac (lossless), as it was a single album and I only selected 7 songs, and it was handy for me to do at that moment in time. I wont be doing the same for the other 3000+ songs, or any new ones in the future. Flac was overkill to begin with and HDCD is just getting ludicrous for me personally.
DiamondJohn said:
This happens to be a CD back from the year 2000. (No HDCD logo on cover) All I care about is the actual audio, and the Album, artist, song title metadata. My ears are over 50 years old, and although I do like my sub-woofer and hi's boosted, I am mostly listening in my car, with traffic and car noise, I dont think the HDCD encoding would be of much benefit. I only ripped to flac (lossless), as it was a single album and I only selected 7 songs, and it was handy for me to do at that moment in time. I wont be doing the same for the other 3000+ songs, or any new ones in the future. Flac was overkill to begin with and HDCD is just getting ludicrous for me personally.
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The subtext creates the broader sound stage which you can hear when using a stereo (or more) image in an open listening area.
An inaudible 20 khz audio wave collides with a inaudible 18 khz audio wave to produce a 2 khz wave that you can hear and so on. Thousands of interactions per second.
Many HDCDs are not label as such.
You need a 24 bit digital signal path to a 24 bit or higher DAC to glean about 90-92% of the HDCD subtext. A HDCD decoder gleams 100% of it.
HDCDs are around a 22 bit image vs a CDs 16 bit.
I haven't figured out how to change my username since I decided I like iPhone better than Android.
I want to copy my personal music collection onto my iPhone but when I tried to at the library by connecting the mp3 player and the iPhone to separate USB cables to the Windows computer, it wouldn't let me and later I found out from Apple that there is a restriction where you have to use iTunes. Because I don't have my own computer at home I was wondering if there are any alternatives, and someone at the Apple Store suggested that syncing the mp3s with iTunes may still not allow the playback of the mp3s if they weren't specifically purchased through Apple Music.
So what would be a good alternative way to transfer my music collection onto the iPhone? I tested a web-site in Google Chrome that is a YouTube to mp3 converter called "mp3 juices" that allows you to download audio from YouTube into mp3 files. It worked on iPhone and I was able to import mp3s into a music player app called the Audius Music Player. Since the Audius Music Player works in this way, I suppose I could copy all 12 GB of my music collection onto Google Drive and than download the songs one by one and than import them into the Audius Music Player app but I think this may be rather tedious to click to download on each individual song until I downloaded 12 GB of music. Also the free version of Audius Music Player says it has limits so I don't know if there would be a limitation on the amount of music that can be downloaded.
Would there be a way to save all the music album folders and files into one large zip file and unzip the music files onto the iPhone?
Another suggestion mentioned to me by someone is the VLC media player, but VLC on iPhone requires iTunes to sync the music into VLC media player and so I may want to get away from having to deal with iTunes.
Lol, I thought everything was easy on iPhones...
Try this.
Meh, I've used iPhones for work and I'll take my N10+'s over them any day.
DRM sucks... you are now part of the machine.
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I haven't figured out how to change my username since I decided I like iPhone better than Android.
I want to copy my personal music collection onto my iPhone but when I tried to at the library by connecting the mp3 player and the iPhone to separate USB cables to the Windows computer, it wouldn't let me and later I found out from Apple that there is a restriction where you have to use iTunes. Because I don't have my own computer at home I was wondering if there are any alternatives, and someone at the Apple Store suggested that syncing the mp3s with iTunes may still not allow the playback of the mp3s if they weren't specifically purchased through Apple Music.
So what would be a good alternative way to transfer my music collection onto the iPhone? I tested a web-site in Google Chrome that is a YouTube to mp3 converter called "mp3 juices" that allows you to download audio from YouTube into mp3 files. It worked on iPhone and I was able to import mp3s into a music player app called the Audius Music Player. Since the Audius Music Player works in this way, I suppose I could copy all 12 GB of my music collection onto Google Drive and than download the songs one by one and than import them into the Audius Music Player app but I think this may be rather tedious to click to download on each individual song until I downloaded 12 GB of music. Also the free version of Audius Music Player says it has limits so I don't know if there would be a limitation on the amount of music that can be downloaded.
Would there be a way to save all the music album folders and files into one large zip file and unzip the music files onto the iPhone?
Another suggestion mentioned to me by someone is the VLC media player, but VLC on iPhone requires iTunes to sync the music into VLC media player and so I may want to get away from having to deal with iTunes.
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You have to use iTunes. Don't have a computer? Get one. IPhones don't behave like android, it's either iTunes or you don't. They are more locked down.